WRITING HOOKS
WRITING HOOKS
Beth Burke
Table of Contents
What are HOOKS? ................................................................................... 3
Types of HOOKS ....................................................................................... 4
A Hook Mini-Lesson .................................................................. 5
Analogy ............................................................................................. 7
Command to the Reader ....................................................... 8
Bold Statement........................................................................... 9
Character¡¯s Thought or Feelings ................................. 10
Definition ...................................................................................... 11
Dialogue/ Quotation ............................................................... 12
Foreshadowing........................................................................... 13
Onomatopoeia ............................................................................. 14
Question ......................................................................................... 15
Theme Statement ................................................................... 16
Sentence Fragments ............................................................. 17
Setting/ Picture ...................................................................... 18
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Writing HOOKS
What is a hook?
A hook (also called a lead) is a sentence, group of
sentences or paragraph at the beginning of a writing
piece. It captures (¡°hooks¡±) the reader¡¯s interest,
entices him/her to keep reading and establishes the
author¡¯s voice.
How do I teach hooks?
Connect your ¡°Hook instruction¡± to reading. Look
at the Hooks that are used in the novels, articles, or
other stories you are reading.
Take a published selection of literature and have
students try different Hooks for the same story.
Use the samples of hooks with your students as
models for their writing.
Model creating your own hook using one of the
samples from real literature.
Don¡¯t think of them as a definite list that you need
to cover.
Don¡¯t think that you need to teach your children to
use and/or identify each kind of hook.
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Types of HOOKS
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Action
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Analogy
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Command to the Reader
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Bold Statement/ Interesting Fact
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Character¡¯s Thought or Feelings
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Definition
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Dialogue or Quotation
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Foreshadowing
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Onomatopoeia
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Question
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A Theme Statement
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Sentence Fragment
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Setting/ Picture
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A Hook Mini-Lesson
IRA/NCTE Standard
Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process
elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Objective
Students will compose a hook in order to capture the reader¡¯s interest in their stories.
Opening Activities
Ask students to pull out the book they are reading right now and read the first
paragraph. Ask students if any of their books really motivated them to want to
read the rest of the book.
Have one or two students share. Tell students that good authors create hooks to
begin their stories to encourage people to ¡°hook¡± them in and make them want
to read on.
Tell students the objective for the day: You will compose a ¡°hook¡± to entice
readers to read your story.
Procedure
1. Ask students if they know any techniques a writer can use to hook readers into
wanting to read the whole book in just the first few sentences. Elicit student
responses. You may wish to write list of ways to hook a reader (refer to the
Writing Hooks packet).
2. Select one of the hooks to display as a transparency and discuss it.
3. Model creating your own version of the hook.
4. Have students work in cooperative teams to try creating a hook as well.
Closure
Ask students to verbalize why authors use hooks at the beginning of their writing.
Extension
As students are working on their own writing, encourage them to use one of the hooks.
Assessment
Observation of students¡¯ group work. You may score the students¡¯ group revisions on a
3-Point Scale:
3¡ªHook grabs the reader¡¯s attention using the topic of the ¡°weak¡± sample and uses the
hook technique.
2¡ªHook grabs uses the topic of the ¡°weak¡± sample and uses the hook technique.
1¡ªHook uses either the topic of the ¡°weak¡± sample and uses the hook technique.
0¡ªHook was off-topic or not complete.
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